Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
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"One beetle. My first. Shiny and black. It shimmied down my windpipe, tiny legs like a staccato earthquake. My insides clenched. Growled. Tremored, creating tiny water rings through my digestive fluids."
Read "Lullabies from the Gullet of a Pitcher Plant" written by Haley Hartman and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtetfuru
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"Driving those rutted back lanes along the coast you would find places I swear did not exist until we got out of the truck, the wind blowing over the dunes, cows wandering the beach, shitting and lowing, and we would walk the tideline, bladderwrack and oyster shell..."
Read "Selkies" written by Kevin Spaide and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/4yjwtjmu
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"My husband wants to take our daughters to the zoo, but I am too nicely dressed for the zoo."
Read "The Woman My Husband Loved Before He Loved Me" written by Andrea Lewis and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/382vz5ka
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"After my thirteenth birthday, Pa abandoned us for a much younger woman. When he left, Ma enforced the rules."
Read "Egret Girl" written by @AmitSwetha0627 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtrfknxu
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"I live a two-dimensional life, and yet I have mass. I can feel the weight of the bricks and mortar at my back that hold me upright, the smoothness of the plaster that makes up the sky all around me and the ground at my feet."
Read "Self-Portrait as Banksy’s Flower Thrower" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/mude5cc5
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"Mom’s unemployment ran out and her boyfriend found her a job at a local factory installing the flashing lights on emergency vehicles. On her first shift she nicked a portable one and placed it on our coffee table."
Read "Mother’s Little Helper" written by @jeff__harvey and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3zhr9xv2
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"We sniff out our old trails, scents lingering from before they arrived, before they destroyed our homeland to build their own."
Read "Inside The Boar’s Head" written by @DeniseBayes and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/3dmmp23x
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"One’s missing a hind leg, the other an eye. The alligators lie on the spring grass by the lake behind our house."
Read "Alligator Envy" written by Scott Bolendz and illustrated by Amy Marques. tinyurl.com/ymhcnudt
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"The fence accepts us after a fraught negotiation of wire and skin, a cold bite at my wrist."
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"She is fine, the nurse has assured him. And why would she lie? Joanna’s surgery is done."
Read "Recovery V" written by Patricia Q. Bidar and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/5xavwffc
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"That woman had better not come closer. Margo doesn’t want to hear or watch that whole non-private conversation. For crying out loud. Can’t she afford earphones?"
Read "Margo Is Having a Bad Day and She Hates Golf" written by @DelGeo14 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/mtapftn3
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"The cancer wasn’t where it was supposed to be. It had grown wild and unweeded. But still there was hope. That’s what everyone was always saying. Hope was in the air. She couldn’t smell it."
Read "In Her Dreams" written by @andrewbertaina and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4mp5669y
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"I was brushing my teeth before work, and the fly was buzzing about my head much the way my cat buzzes about the sink when I brush my teeth before bed."
Read "I Mistook a Fly for My Cat" written by Michelle Ross and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/2k4j4m8x
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"The main thing to know about Barb is that she isn’t thinking about the future. She doesn’t see it coming. This keeps her optimistic."
Read "Trains" written by Sherrie Flick and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/4jyazne9
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"It takes my roommate seconds to unlock the door to our tiny dorm room."
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"Stomachs full of free-range chicken and organic wine, the two Annies wound their way down Greenwich Street."
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"The lice fall onto Samantha’s lap in music class. Engorged on the blood they have sucked from her scalp, they wriggle on her blue plaid uniform skirt. She squishes one between her right thumb and index finger."
Read "The Fool on the Hill" written by @rtigernyc and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/39c8nrvy
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"There will be other snares you must sidestep at your grandfather’s funeral, so follow these tips."
Read "Your Five-Step Guide to Being a Pallbearer" written by @MikeKiggins and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/r3jenam9
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"Masts towered above them, mainsail and foresail each bowed like an expectant belly. Ropes as thick as forearms stretched taut as crew members climbed up and down the ratlines to inspect the rigging."
Read "Glass Harbor" written by @sugarpigblog and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/5n6h63j2
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